Word: conductor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Somehow I became a Western musician. My dream has been to come to China, me and the Boston Symphony, to play and teach and learn." Last week a Pan Am 747 with 157 people and 35,000 Ibs. of baggage, musical instruments and equipment touched down in Shanghai. B.S.O. Conductor Ozawa hurled himself forward to meet the weary orchestra, which he had preceded into the country...
These unmannered performances clash with the weirder ones, and the orchestra only aggravates the confusion. Its poor quality--ragged ensembles, missed cues, and squeaky strings--weakens the production immensely, and the musicians play right next to much of the audience so it can hear every flub, and wince. Whether conductor Nicholas Palmer '79 or the musicians themselves are to blame, they seem to have much trouble with Strauss' relatively easy music...
Mark Oshima '82, a first-year club member, said some older members have had problems adjusting to the new conductor, but said Marvin is "a very good conductor, and he does know his music very well...
...Glee Club under Dr. Adams was treated to a series of very ambitious strivings for excellence," Leone said. "It was proud of that, and it's hard to adapt to a conductor with new standards. Marvin doesn't think we can be as good as we have been in the past. Whether he will take advantage of the potentials of the group remains to be seen...
...Paris, the opera world's most tantalizing other shoe has finally dropped. The Paris Opera presented the first-ever full-length Lulu, third act and all. To Rolf Liebermann, the Paris Opéra's general director, it was the culmination of a 30-year quest. To Conductor Pierre Boulez, it was belated "justice to a work that has been mutilated." To the black-tie audience of statesmen, artistic leaders, 200 music critics and assorted opera buffs, it was a triumph and, to some, a perplexity...